Margaret Sanger's Legacy: Abortion

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I am writing an article right now concerning, among other things, the affect the culture of death has had upon our country’s demographics-- and our future. In the course of an article revision, I came across new information which I thought I’d pass on to you.

According to the Allan Guttmacher Institute, 1.31 million abortions are taking place each year. (The peak was in 1980, and it has been slowly dropping since.) This number corresponds to one quarter of all pregnancies ending in abortion within this country. This figure is sickening.

Does anyone have any observations that they’d like to share on this topic–e.g. ways to battle this culture? It cements in my mind the accuracy of Karl Keating’s voter guide concerning those principles on which Catholics should not compromise.

By the way*, Christianity Today* (November 2004) had an interesting article on abortion, but it wasn’t very deep in its conclusions.
 
What view of Sanger’s will you be adding in the paper? I’m just curious because I have a degree in American History.
 
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StratusRose:
What view of Sanger’s will you be adding in the paper? I’m just curious because I have a degree in American History.
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Margaret Sanger is briefly profiled in this paper as a representative illustration of the “culture of death”. I also used a short quotation from her book Pivot of Civilization (with an introduction sadly by H.G. Wells). The main gist of my paper, though, is the moral and ethical implications of new population trend research by Dr. Emir Shuford. His research identifies a new way to percieve the threat affecting the downward spiral in birthrates in developed nations. He has called it “Contagious Infertility Syndrome”.
 
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Margaret Sanger is briefly profiled in this paper as a representative illustration of the “culture of death”. I also used a short quotation from her book Pivot of Civilization (with an introduction sadly by H.G. Wells). The main gist of my paper, though, is the moral and ethical implications of new population trend research by Dr. Emir Shuford. His research identifies a new way to percieve the threat affecting the downward spiral in birthrates in developed nations. He has called it “Contagious Infertility Syndrome”.
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If you have time and inclination, three excellent resources are:

Margaret Sanger, Father of Modern Society, by Elasah Drogin

Blessed Are The Barren, The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood, by Robert Marshall & Charles Donovan

Grand Illusions, The Legacy of Planned Parenthood by George Grant

And, online, visit www.all.org/stopp.
 
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If you have time and inclination, three excellent resources are:

Margaret Sanger, Father of Modern Society, by Elasah Drogin

Blessed Are The Barren, The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood, by Robert Marshall & Charles Donovan

Grand Illusions, The Legacy of Planned Parenthood by George Grant

And, online, visit www.all.org/stopp.
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Thank you for the references! It’s hard to find good ones on this topic…
 
Don’t forget to show the links between Sanger, Planned Parenthood, and racist eugenics. The vast majority of abortions are performed on the poor and women of color, especially African-Americans and Hispanics. Births among the poor and people of color are precisely what Sanger and other eugenicists said needed to be heavily regulated or eliminated entirely.

Abortion not only kills children and scars women, it is racist and classist as well.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
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Does anyone have any observations that they’d like to share on this topic–e.g. ways to battle this culture? It cements in my mind the accuracy of Karl Keating’s voter guide concerning those principles on which Catholics should not compromise.
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CONTRACEPTION is the way to battle this evil. Not the use of it but getting rid of it. Convincing people that it is evil. If we don’t homosexual marriage is the next stop and then can we spell polygamy?

Matt
 
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mlchance:
Don’t forget to show the links between Sanger, Planned Parenthood, and racist eugenics. The vast majority of abortions are performed on the poor and women of color, especially African-Americans and Hispanics. Births among the poor and people of color are precisely what Sanger and other eugenicists said needed to be heavily regulated or eliminated entirely.

Abortion not only kills children and scars women, it is racist and classist as well.

– Mark L. Chance.
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Yes… If you want to read something really chilling, read H.G. Wells introduction to Sanger’s Pivot of Civlization. It was pretty clear what they thought of the children of the under classes. The connection between eugenics and abortion is discussed in my introduction.
 
Sanger believed in Eugenics but after the fall of the thrid reich she changed her position to womens rights.
 
Michael C:
Sanger believed in Eugenics but after the fall of the thrid reich she changed her position to womens rights.
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Not really. She and the other eugenicists just changed their vocabulary. The words changed, but not the intention, was remained the regulation of births among “undesirable” groups.

The pioneers of the women’s rights movement (i.e., Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth) were all opposed to abortion and contraception.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
Well I would just like to encourage you in your research. My husband and I are disscussing creating a website about the Planned Parenthood/eugenics link. There is a ton of info out there, but not much of it is actually available at public libraries, which is sickening, since they seem to have every neo feminist book imaginable EXCEPT the ones that portray pp in a bad light.

I would also just like to mention that Alexander Sanger, Margaret Sanger’s grandson, was the president of Planned Parenthood for several years up until the year 2000. He also has written quite a few books that may be helpful, since they are full of lies and inaccuracies about Margaret that are easily refutted by fact. For example: he and others consistantly claim that Margaret Sanger’s mother died of childbearing. In fact, according to The Margaret Sanger Papers Project (also a great resource) she died of tuberculosis at age 49!

Yes Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist, this is obvious not only by several of her books, but also by the magazine she ran “The Birth Control Review” whose contributors included several members of the Nazi party. She also was affiliated with the American Nazi sympathist party, America First, but this info is difficult to verify as she did such a marvelous job covering it up in her later years, (remember she lived until well into her 80’s.)

Good luck and God bless.
 
Another excellent resource.

It is well-known that Sanger was not only a eugenicist, but was a racist, as well:

At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.

Her gtrandson Alexander Sanger has published a book in which he appears to make the claim that abortion is necessary for the survival of the fittest, echoing his grandmother’s claims from 80 years ago.

This is evil stuff.
 
Yes…Has anyone read G.K. Chesterton’s *Everlasting Man? *I plan to soon, but haven’t yet. I understand that it voiced the Catholic Church’s opposition to the eugenics movement, and was a strong influence on writers such as C.S. Lewis.
 
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Not really. She and the other eugenicists just changed their vocabulary. The words changed, but not the intention, was remained the regulation of births among “undesirable” groups.

The pioneers of the women’s rights movement (i.e., Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth) were all opposed to abortion and contraception.

– Mark L. Chance.
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Maybe should have said “Diguised” her position to human rights?
 
I would also bring up the abortion/infanticide link. Although I personally believe abortion IS infanticide, there is a mountain of evidence that correlates legalized abortion with other forms of infanticide and abandonment. For example, Japan, which has had legalized abortion for far longer than the U.S., has had so many cases of infanticide that they actually had to go on the news and beg women to stop killing their babies!

I have some more resources on this if you would like some more of my help at all, my husband said he would like to help as well but we won’t have much time until this weekend if that is alright.

Hope all goes well!
 
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AmyS:
They have great information on Feminist for Life www.feministsforlife.com has great information. I really like some of their historical information.
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Wow Amy, that is a wonderful website. I had never heard of the organization before. It was very informative and thought provoking and has swayed me to rethink many of my personal positions on the issues presented on the site.

Thanks again!
 
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I would also bring up the abortion/infanticide link. Although I personally believe abortion IS infanticide, there is a mountain of evidence that correlates legalized abortion with other forms of infanticide and abandonment. For example, Japan, which has had legalized abortion for far longer than the U.S., has had so many cases of infanticide that they actually had to go on the news and beg women to stop killing their babies!

I have some more resources on this if you would like some more of my help at all, my husband said he would like to help as well but we won’t have much time until this weekend if that is alright.

Hope all goes well!
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This is a powerful point… I think abortion inures us or de-sensitizes us to other (moral) crimes of a similar nature. For another example of this look at television. So many shows seem to want to just cross over that line of decency in order to grab our attention. What happens the following year? The line is moved a little further out again. We’re accustomed to a lot of things today as a culture which would have really shocked people a generation, or two, ago.
 
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